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Visit getnativepath.comradio to stock up on collagen for an incredible 45% off plus free shipping. Getnativepath.com radio broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Wow. To jump ahead a day I just saw, Senator Marco Rubio, whose confirmation hearing is tomorrow for Secretary of State, will say in his opening remarks that China has lied and cheated its way to superpower status at the expense of the United States. According to the syllable true. Absolutely. Man, I love a SEC Secretary of State coming in that. That's his opening point of view. That's freaking awesome. Time to call a spade a spade and a communist a communist. But for today, wake up, America. Grow up, stand up, get up. For today, it's pull your socks up, as John Lennon would say. Right. Pete Hegseth is trying to be confirmed as Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense. And in case they don't follow this sort of stuff very closely, it's worth knowing that for a lot of the media and the politicians themselves, it's just yay our side or boo our side. They just want to shoot down whoever the other side nominates with some sort of feeling that if they have to go to their second choice, you've won something, though I haven't seen that displayed in my life on any level that it really has any lasting impact, but. So they would feel like MSNBC and the Democrat senators would feel like they won something if they could stop Hegseth from being nominated. Okay, fine. Just more than I think than the particular issues of the person that they're grilling. Don't you think? Oh, yeah, absolutely. It's just posting a win for our side, even if, as you indicate, the wind doesn't do you any good. Yeah, you just go to a different choice. And, and, and they, and they are playing out the President's policy anyway as Secretary of State or sec. De or whatever. If they didn't, they get fired by their boss. Right. So where should we start on some of the. They're in the third hour of the Hegseth hearings. That would be a grueling day, man. And I. I don't know how you not lose Your temper. That'd be the main thing I'd be saying there. Don't get angry, don't get angry. Don't get angry. That's I'd be saying to myself, stay cool. Stay cool. Stay cool. As they call you all kinds of names and try to drag you into, not into losing your cool. That's one of their goals, right? Yeah. Although it depends. You know, some, some can get that boil at just the right level. But it's a, it's a dangerous game to play. You don't want to lose your control. Me, I'd go with you, you pizza ass, you mother black and try to climb over the table. And then people have to hold me back. That's why I said some. Be too specific. Hey, Hanson, where do we want to start in these. What's your. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Pete. Exit being questioned by somebody. So what we're talking about here specifically is women in ground combat roles. Tom Cotton in jobs like infantrymen or artillerymen or special forces. Until about 10 years ago that wasn't the case. Under Secretary Panetta, those roles were opened up to women to serve in. Has President Trump indicated at all that he plans to rescind or alter that guidance? You're correct to point out, Senator, that these are the decisions that the commander in chief will have the prerogative to make. He has not indicated me to me that he has plans to change whether or not women would have access to these roles. However, I would point out ensuring that standards are equal and high is of importance to him and great importance to me. Because in those ground combat roles, what is true is that the weight of the ruck on your back doesn't change the weight of the 155 round that you have to carry, doesn't change. The weight of the 240 Bravo machine gun you might have to carry doesn't change. And so whether it's a man or a woman, they have to meet the same high standards. And Senator, in any place where those things have been eroded or in courses, criteria have been changed in order to meet quotas, racial quotas or gender quotas. That is putting a focus on something other than readiness standards, meritocracy and lethality. So that's the kind of review I'm talking about, not whether women have access to ground combat. Okay, so what percentage of America would agree with what he just said there? Huge, huge, huge absolute majority, without a doubt. I'm looking at Byron York from the Washington. And if you were to poll people who served in combat and therefore really know what they're talking about. It would be unanimous. Byron York, Washington examiner, says that Kirsten Gillibrand, her attempts failed. She's the Democratic senator from New York. Let's hear a little of her. Everything you've said in these public statements is politics. I don't want women. I don't want moms. What's wrong with a mom, by the way? Once you have babies, you therefore are no longer able to be lethal. I mean, you're basically saying women, after they have children can't ever serve in the military in a combat role. It's a silly thing to say. It's a silly thing to say. Beneath the position that you are aspiring to, to denigrate LGBTQ service members is a mistake. If you are a sharpshooter, you're as lethal, regardless of what your gender identity is, regardless of who you love. Senator, as the President has stated, I don't disagree with the overturn of don't ask, don't tell. Great. Because I don't want you thinking, can't serve if you're a mom. Can't serve if you're lgbtq. He's like, who are you yelling at and why? Well, okay, then. All right, so I would just say, hey, Democrats, keep thinking that that Twitter worldview is the winning argument. Do it. Go. Take it to the mat. Just pushing it cycle after cycle. That it's all about LGBTQ and identity politics and everything. Keep doing it. I'm all for you. I'm on your side. Kirsten Gillibrand is the classic midwit. I think that's the. The term we're supposed to use these days. H.L. mencken would have called her a medioc. Whichever term search you suits you the best. Maybe. I think that's probably true. I remember when she ran for president. I wasn't impressed. But she's also trying to get reelected in New York, where a lot of her constituents agree with what she just said. And that's her job. So staying in office is her job. Again, to your point, her job is not to figure out who would be the best second half. Right. Probably didn't even consider that. So here he is. How do you say the name? Hirano? Rono. Hirono. But this is where they start getting into his personal life and questioning him on that. Haven't heard this. Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature? No. Senator, have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct. Senator, I was falsely accused in October of 2017. It was fully investigated and I was completely cleared. I don't think completely cleared is accurate. But the fact is that your own lawyer said that you entered into an NDA and paid a person who accused you of raping her a sum of money to make sure that she did not file a complaint. Moving on, as Secretary, you will be in charge of maintaining good order and discipline by enforcing the Uniform Code of Military justice, ucmj, in addition to the sexual assault allegations. By the way, the answer to my second question should have been yes. I have read multiple reports of your regularly being drunk at work, including by people who worked with you at Fox News. Do you know that being drunk at work is prohibited for service members under the ucmj? Senator, those are multiple false anonymous reports peddled by NBC News that run directly contradictory to the dozens of men and women at Fox News who I work with. I'm not hearing that answer to my question. I like the question. Do you know you're not supposed to be drunk at work? Yeah, yeah, I know. Maisie Hirono is a 77 year old progressive crank. So I just, I've just looked ahead on this. This gets into whether or not he'd shoot protesters in the legs. So I want to hear this the next one. In June of 2020, then President Trump directed former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the legs in downtown D.C. an order secretary Esper refused to comply with. Would you carry out such an order from President Trump? Senator, I was in the Washington D.C. national Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those. Would you carry out an order to shoot protests in my country in the legs? I saw 50 Secret Service agents get injured by rioters trying to jump over the fence, set the church on fire and destroy the streets. You know what, that sounds to me that you will comply with such an order. You will shoot protesters in the, in the lake. Moving on. Hawaii. I've been to Hawaii. I've enjoyed Hawaii. I've talked to Hawaiians. You can do better than that, half wit. Elect somebody who's got like two thirds of a wit looking up at Senator Warren, Elizabeth Warren. I've been looking, waiting for her. Today. She says, I want to pick up on the questioning of Senator Hirono. So that's exciting. So before take this further down the road. Well, we have more Maisie Hirono, who I'm actually enjoying in a perverse sort of way. 76 I think it's clear what she's talking about. But this is. This is great. President elect has attacked our allies in recent weeks, refusing to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal and threatening to take to make Canada the 51st state. Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally, Denmark, by force, or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal? Senator, I will emphasize that President Trump received 77 million votes to be the lawful commander. We're not talking about the election. My question is, would you use our military to take over Greenland or an ally of Denmark? Senator, one of the things that President Trump is so good at is never strategically tipping his hand. And so I would never, in this public forum, give one way or another, direct what orders the president gives me in any context. It sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such an order to basically invade Greenland. Mr. Hicks says was you shoot Greenlanders in the legs if you invaded and they protest. Senator, that's a ridiculous. I can only assume you would shoot Greenlanders in their legs. Do you know it's against the law to be drunk in Greenland? Would you, having shot a Greenlander in the legs, get drunk and come on to her? Would you sexually harass a drunk Greenlander who's limping along having been shot in the leg? Yes, Kate. And have you in the past answer the question. I just love how she borderline sounds drunk and goes, you understand it's against the rules to be drunk. I realize that's the way she talks, but, yeah, she did sound a little drunk. You know you're not supposed to drink at work, right? You got just a nitwit at age 77. That's ridiculous. Grandstanding questions. What are we? We're the greatest superpower on earth. Act like it. 99% of hearings are are grandstanding, performative BS for talk radio to mock one side or the other. I do want to hear the Tim Kaine stuff. It's kind of long. He's the senator from wherever he was Hillary Clinton's running mate. You might remember him. Nobody cares. Virginia maybe. Or remember they featured him on Saturday Night Live a couple of weeks ago. It was hilarious. Nobody remembered who he was. That was the whole point. Anyway, he really gets into Hegseth's personal life. And we're going to play that for you. Coming up, Armstrong and Getty. The new year means new health goals not just for your body, but your finances, too. But did you know financial health is directly related to identity protection. You need Lifelock because your personal info is in endless places that are outside of your control. It only takes one mistake, and not even your mistake to expose you to identity theft and lost funds. LifeLock monitors hundreds of millions of data points per second and alerts you to threats you could miss on your own. 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Anyway, Tim Kaine, who's still a senator, apparently was questioning Pete Hegseth about his personal life and trying to make this a reason not to have him be Secretary of defense. Thank you, Mr. Hegseth. I'm looking forward to this opportunity to talk. I want to return to the incident that you referenced a minute ago that occurred in Monterey, California in October 2017. At that time, you were still married to your second wife, correct? I believe so. And you had just fathered a child by a woman who would later become your third wife, correct? Senator? I was falsely charged, fully investigated, and completely cleared. So you think you are completely cleared because you committed no crime? That's your definition of cleared? You had just fathered a child two months before by a woman that was not your wife. I am shocked that you would stand here and say you're completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and cheat on the mother of a child that had been born two months before and you tell us you are completely cleared how is that a complete clear, Senator, her child's name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth and she's a child of God. And she's seven years old. And she was. And you cheated on the mother of that child less than two months after that daughter was born, didn't you? Those were false charges. Fully investigated, and I was completely cleared. And I am so grateful for the marriage I have. To this other. You've admitted that you had sex at that hotel in October 2017. You said it was consensual. Isn't that correct? Anything. You've admitted that it was consensual and you were still married and you just had a child by another woman. Wow. Again, how do you explain your judgment? Completely false charges against me. You. You investigated and I'm completely clear. You have admitt that you had sex while you were married to wife two after you just had fathered a child by wife three. You've admitted that. Now, if it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it? It was a false claim then and a false claim now. If it had been a sexual assault, that would be disqualifying to be Secretary of Defense, wouldn't it? That was a false claim. I'm talking about a hypothetical. So you can't tell me whether someone who has committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being Secretary of Defense. Senator, I know in my instance, and I'm talking about my instance only, it was a false claim. But you acknowledge. But you acknowledge that you cheated on your wife and that you cheated on the woman by whom you had just fathered a child. You have admitted that. I will allow your words to speak for them. You're not retracting that today. That's good. Wow. Oof. Wow. So he's got a very ugly. Don't approve of it. Personal life, obviously. Oh, yeah, that's been pretty well conceded by all that he ran around. This isn't new information. But he could have responded with. So are you arguing Bill Clinton should have never been president or. I know you went to Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government. Should his name be taken off that building? I mean, my lifestyle is not much different than their lifestyle. I know you wouldn't say that, but it's true or. Yeah. And absolutely throw in. And I regret the way I acted. I was more interested in my desires than my responsibilities as a young man. I've changed completely. That's some ugly stuff there. But his wife's business. But its current wife didn't really dig hearing it either. We got a little more of this and other stuff on the way. 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I'm doing, doing this job for them. All of them. Thank you, Mr. Hexa. And I'm getting grilled and insulted by a bunch of rich half wits who the most difficult thing they've ever done is accepted their phony master's degree. Mark Levin tweeted out. Is Hirono part of an SNL skit? Agreed. We played that a little bit earlier. If you missed it, get the podcast. Yeah, yeah. I wish there had been more of her. She was so funny. Unintentionally speaking. Speaking of unintentionally funny, you've got the beer swigging fake Indian from Massachusetts or wherever she's from. Elizabeth Warren. She's a Harvard academic. She is in favor of all things progressive, and she has a problem with the actual fighting man. Pete Hegseth I like this conversation, though I'm glad It's taken place. 79. Michael, page 48 of your book. You claim that women should not be in combat roles because men are distracted by women. And then 10 weeks ago, you appeared on the Sean Ryan show and said, I'm straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles. Now, I presume you recall making all these statements. Senator, I'm not familiar with the article you're pointing to in 2013, but it underscores my argument completely. Because in that 2013 argument, I was talking about standards. Standards are what it's always been about, Senators. This same fight always been about. I quoted you directly. We've got the video. We're happy to show it. But I want to be clear here. For 12 years, you were quite open about your views, and your views were consistently the same. Women are inferior. Soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and guardians. And in case anyone missed the point, and these are your words from 10 weeks ago. Women, absolutely, straight up, should not be permitted to serve in combat. And I notice on each of these quotes those are said without qualification. It's not by how much you can lift or how fast you can run. They don't belong in combat, period. Or your words straight up. And then on November 9, 2024, just 32 days after your last public comment saying that women absolutely should not be in combat, you declared, quote, some of our greatest warriors are women and you support having them serve in combat. Now that is a very, very big about face in a very, very short period of time. So help me understand, Mr. Hegseth, what extraordinary event happened in that 32 day period that made you change the core values you had expressed for the preceding 12 years? Senator, again, I very much appreciate you bringing up my comments from 2013, because for me, this issue has always been about standards. And unfortunately, because of some of the people that have been involved in the last four years, priorities other than standards, lethality and meritocracy have driven you. So I have the answer. Actually, Pete's not going to give it. The. The reason why he changed his opinion was Joni Ernst, the female senator from Iowa, who's a Republican, was very unhappy with those things that I think he actually believes. And he needs 50 Republican votes to get confirmed and he is trying to get hers. I think he believes that women in combat are a distraction and make it more difficult to have an effective fighting force. I don't have any way to speak to that. I think it makes perfectly good sense, his theory, but I don't know if that's true or not. I've never experienced it myself. Well, and honestly, it's at once a lazy argument, an incredibly good argument. Senator, for all of human history, mankind has not put women into combat except in very, very rare circumstances. I mean, the numbers are tiny, historically speaking, for a number of reasons, including standards, but also because women are too valuable to the society if you want 10 babies to be had. Joe's Handmaid's Tale okay, here we go. If. If you want 10 babies this year, you need 10 women, you need. Ah, dude. By the way, that was the part that made me groan out loud at Gladiator 2. Their opening scene, they had to have a chick warrior who was kicking ass. I was like, come on, you're trying too hard here. Oh, goodness sakes. Prehistoric. Back in the Roman days, that wasn't happening. It's not hard to imagine it as possibly being true that to have one woman in a group of 15 guys presents more obstacles than it's worth. That's not difficult for me to understand. Even if she's qualified, like physically can do the job, right. It's Just. And this is the difference in orientation between Liz Warren and her type and more ours. And Pete Hegseth's is the only thing that matters. Well, okay, let me rephrase that. The first question must be effectiveness. It must be the result, period. Before we discuss anything else, we discuss the result of having that woman in a combat unit, because it's not always going to be disruptive necessarily. But you've got to discuss. All right, in terms of combat readiness and effectiveness, how does it affect it? Now, if you say it affects it significantly, well, then that's the end of the discussion. Even if it's. It affects it significantly a smallish percentage of the time. We're done talking here. From my point of view. Now, if it's a very minor difference in effectiveness, then okay, I'm willing to say, all right, what do we gain by doing that? What do you gain by. In theory, you would double the pool of people you can choose warriors from. It's probably not double because the, the percentage of women that can physically do it would not be as high as men. But you, you, you greatly enhance the pool of potential great warriors if you allow women. Well, I, I would suggest. Not to quibble, but if you kept the same standards as Pete is advocating, you would increase the pool slightly. Yeah, I don't know that the current standards Tom Cotton was talking about aren't very strict. Running 2 miles in 22 minutes, for instance. Can you get off a couch and walk swiftly? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, putting aside the fact that a lot of this questioning is, is blatantly unfair or irrelevant and not all of this it, but they got to figure out who this guy is and what sort of character he has. And there are going to be some embarrassing and tough questions. I'm not going to go full on, you know, one sided partisan on this one, but I just. Like you did a bit ago where we got to keep the women back to have 10 babies each. Whatever, whatever you're talking about, it's just a. Disgusting. Yeah, roughly. That's roughly correct. Yeah. No, I'm glad these discussions are being had anytime they can be had publicly and have America's attention drawn to the them. I think that's a good thing. Otherwise China is going to whoop our ass. Well, do you agree with me? I think Pete believes women shouldn't be in combat roles because it does. It's more of a negative than a positive. But he had 100%. He feels like he had to abandon that position for whatever reason. For Joni Ernst at least yeah, yeah, yeah. I think there could be some clarification. I mean, if a woman's like a fabulous drone pilot, is that quote unquote in combat? Good question. If you're killing folks, you're in combat. I would think so. How about a fighter pilot? Because Joni was a pilot. Correct. Or am I misremembering? I don't. Might be thinking of somebody else. I apologize. But fighter pilot, okay with that? It's when you get into infantry and, you know, artillery groups, squads, you know, that. That I have problems with again. But again, I will leave. I will happily leave that to the experts and not just civilians spouting off opinions based on their beliefs about, you know, pie in the sky, ideals for society. The military is not a social experiment. Right. It's amazing that we still can't have these conversations without just getting to the. That group of 20 humans over there. Are they going to be a more lethal fighting force with a woman or two or without the end? And then somebody honestly answer that question and then whichever is going to make it the most lethal, let's do that. If making it all women makes it more lethal, let's do that. I don't care. I just wanted to beat the Chinese when the S hits the fan. Right. I'm reminded of that piece I read earlier and we were talking about. About tanashi coats and how the romantic point of view, just about your feelings and facts and figures and effectiveness. Why are you denying my truth? I know I'm right and I don't care what your facts are. We can't have that sort of person running our military. That, please, the grown ups are, are required. How about that Team Kane stuff? Another thing I'm surprised we haven't worked out by 2025 where we've just decided we're not gonna care if guys cheat on their wives and that sort of stuff that doesn't have anything to do with the job. Or do we care? I mean, why can't we just figure that out once and for all? Oh, we have. If it's the other guys, it matters completely. It's incredibly important. If it's our guy, it's irrelevant. 77 million people just voted for Donald Trump knowing exactly what kind of guy he is when it comes to women. Yeah. I think the difference there is it's a binary choice probably. Sure, sure. Yeah, yeah. I absolutely see your point. At the same time, it feels kind of case by case, ish to me. Okay. I mean, it's. It's not a sin to have an Unhappy marriage. And before the paperwork's done, maybe you got a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Well, according to some people, it is a sin. But, you know, in my world, I get that it's fine if you're like, abusive and you know, I don't love. If I found out a friend of mine had, for instance, produced a child with soon to be wife number three while still married to wife number two and was stupping strangers in hotels who was also married. The that woman was married and her husband was upstairs with the kids. That's a horrible story. You almost need a chart like we're doing a murder podcast. But anyway, with her kids upstairs and her husband's in the host. Yeah, same hotel room. Yeah. But anyway, if I found that, that about a person, I would definitely think, oh, boy. Okay, I know what sort of fell I'm dealing with here. Right. Case by case basis. I. I don't like his chances at all for a variety of reasons. Okay. Okay. But I respect Pete Hegseth and I. I value his voice. Well, I think just. Just having looked at the various, like, moderate Republican senators in which way they're leaning, I don't like his chances. I think Fetterman hinted he's a yes. So then you only need to get to 49 Republican senators, right? If Fetterman's a yes. But there are, according to Mark Halpern yesterday, a dozen pretty close to hard nose among the Republicans, which is way more than would doom him, which includes Mitch McConnell and a variety of other people. Whoever replaced Mitt Romney. You know who doesn't have a chance? I'll tell you. Next. Okay, we'll finish strong. Next. Stay here. Armstrong and Getty stop hitting snooze on new tech. Upgrade the whole team@lenovo.com Unlock AI experiences with the 3 ThinkPad X1 Carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create and boost productivity all on one device. Win the tech search for business PCs@lenovo.com Lenovo, Lenovo what are you looking for in a new smart TV? 4K, picture quality, high quality and immersive sound. 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Again. As Jimmy Fallon said, they're starting this weekend, but it's Not a hard cut off. All of a sudden, TikTok disappears this weekend. No, you just can't download the app. You can still access it online. Theoretically. I don't know how that differs the experience from having the actual app. I don't either. I guess people, I was listening to a technical explanation of the how it develops bugs and why and then eventually it doesn't work at all stuff. But it was just. It was a, very dry and B, over my head. I'm guessing there'll be a lot of reporting next week about how well it is or isn't still working on people's phones. Yeah. How about you youngsters, you get your homework done, learn to read and write, go on a date. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah. Go have a couple of beers by the overpass. Don't drive, just go live life. Oh my God. So you gave a great tease. It's so cool. It really is. Oh, that's right. You gave a great tease. And I don't remember what it was. Oh, it was. Which nominee for the cabinet is absolutely not going to make it. And that would be the perhaps highest profile guy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I'm looking at a pretty good list of, you know, how many yeses and no's and maybes probably there are in the Senate. And he has a whole lot of people who are barely even able to say, yeah, we'll give him a good look. A lot of. A lot of Republicans, moderate Republicans, are very hesitant or very skeptical about him. So you're predicting he goes down? I am. I am indeed. So how will. I'm not rooting for it per se. It'll be interesting to see. And again, he is a very bright guy. So how the hearings go, nobody knows. But I don't love his chances. How will Maha react to that? Make America healthy again. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They will react badly and angrily. Practically everybody I know who's into the that that sort of thing has Maga and Maha in their. In their feeds. It's final thoughts. I'm strong. It's final thoughts. It's final thoughts. I'm strong. Get ready with Katie Green and Michael Angelo. Final thoughts. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. Hey, let's get a final thought for. From everybody on the crew. To wrap things up for the day, let's begin with our technical director, Michelangelo. Michael, what's your final thought? I. I agree with you guys. Young people, if you're listening, go find that cute girl, take her out for ice cream, go to a square dance. Get out there. Get out. Sir. A square dance. Katie Greener, esteemed news woman. As a final thought, Katie, I just came across an interesting fact. They've now arrested 40 people that were looting these fires in LA. Not one of them's from the area. They all traveled there for the looting. Wow. They hang horse thieves. Or they used to just say, boy, stay on that story. Yeah, yeah. Indeed. My God. There can't be a sanction severe enough. Jackie, final thought. This might be all you need to know about politics. One of the Democratic senators has already announced he's a no vote. Senator Richard Blumenthal for decades lied about being a Vietnam vet. Then we all found out he wasn't and he's still a US Senator and gets to grill the potential SEC death. Are you kidding me? My final thought, I'm looking at the handicapping from the various nominees, including, including Kristi Noem. And the first thing they mention is that she fatally shot her dog. Critic Cricket, tell you what, you need to shoot your dog. Go ahead and shoot it, but don't put it in your buck. Armstrong, Yeti wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. We'll see you tomorrow. God bless America. Armstrong and Getty has to stop like the day before yesterday. Yep, Absolutely. Are you sure? Oh, dead sure. I've been thinking that we really all need a tremendous hug. Get the hell out of here. Don't you think that's a little odd? It's 100 on the crazy meter. It's true. Are you me? Yup. So let's go out with a bang. 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